One week after throwing her first career no-hitter (Wednesday, April 9), Upper Cape softball ace Amelia Weare one-upped that mark with an epic performance Thursday afternoon, tossing a perfect game.

Adam Ellis aellis@wickedlocal.com @AE24_7sports

BOURNE – One week after throwing her first career no-hitter (Wednesday, April 9), Upper Cape softball ace Amelia Weare one-upped that mark with an epic performance Thursday afternoon, tossing a perfect game.

Weare was immune to frigid springtime temps that registered (with the wind chill) in the 20s, working her way up and down the South Shore Vocational lineup. In turn, her teammates responded, pacing the right-hander to a 22-0 five-inning, slaughter-rule victory.

“This was by far the best performance of her season,” Head Coach Mike Carrier said. “Before the game we talked and said it’s a great day to be a pitcher. But you still gotta throw the pitches. You still gotta locate. She could’ve gone out there and walked seven people. But she didn’t. She hit her spots and had really good stuff throughout the game.”

Following the 16-0 no-hit bid over Cape Cod Tech, Weare was accidentally denied the game ball – a bi-product of the feat being overlooked.

“I don’t pay attention to that sort of thing,” she said. “I just concentrate on trying to pitch my best.”

In a post-game tally of the stat sheet, it was Ticia Weare, the team’s manager, who initially spotted the accomplishment as she marked up the final numbers for the game.

“My mom does the books,” Amelia said. “So when we were getting in the car, she’s looking at the book and says, ‘I think you just pitched a no-hitter.’ I was like, ‘Are you sure?”

Carrier was also late to the party.

“I didn’t realize it until I got home,” he said. “At that point, I felt bad. I wanted to give her the game ball but it was gone. It was just one of those dumb things.”

Perhaps it was the motivation to secure another game ball that enabled the Wareham native to retire 15 straight S.S. Vikings. And true to her in-the-zone mentality, Weare didn’t realize the magnitude of the moment until prompted.

“A teammate of mine came up to me in the fourth inning and said, ‘You’re throwing a no-hitter again! You haven’t allowed any hits or pitched any walks.’

“I told her, ‘Don’t jinx it!” Weare said with a bellied chuckle.

Once she was made aware of the possibilities at hand, the Upper Cape senior’s emotions nearly got the best of her.

“That last inning I was soooooo nervous,” she said.

That may have been the case, but to spectators Weare was as cool as the game-time temps, recording the first two outs and battling back from a 3-0 count to strike out the final batter of the game.

“She’s worked so hard over the past year, she deserves this,” said senior catcher Hannah Rawlings, Weare’s teammate since middle school recreation league. “It’s been great to watch [her mature]. She’s pitching completely different. It’s so much faster and so much harder. It just makes it a lot of fun being behind the plate.”

Coach Carrier presented Weare with the game ball in front of the entire team following the win.

The Rams are now 6-1 overall, largely due to the pitching prowess of their ace.

“Being the coach here for the last eight years and the AD, I’m going to go on record and say that’s the first no-hitter and first perfect game in school history,” Carrier said. “Do I know that for sure? Well, no, but I’m pretty sure that’s the case.

“We weren’t a very good program for a long time and never had much success until the last few years when we started to turn this thing around. Amelia’s been a big part of that and she’s finally coming into her own as a senior. We’ve got a great team this year and we can do some special things if we keep working hard.”

“We can win a voke state championship,” Rawlings added.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had a year where we won a game in the state tournament,” Weare chimed in.